Ditto here in Iowa. 2 of my last 3 deer including my biggest buck came in to range so preoccupied about what had scared them that they never knew I was there until it was too late!

My problem with drives is that you have to hit a moving target usually, it's a helluva lot easier to hit a deer that is standing still or walking slowly than a runner!

I've got 23 acres and no hunting pressure around me. Remote and several hundreds of acres all around with mostly no one hunting. Spent 16 hours in the woods to take my three deer this year. Parts of 4 days...

all this public land crowdness is amazin me ... we have 10,000 acres here an at the most there may be 8 cars ever... at the most.. an thats the first day of rifle.... people jus dont wanna walk... if u cant take your 4 wheeler they dont go......

permisson to hunt 100 sum acres 3 people during bow an about 15 for rifle
member of a 2800 acre hunting club where they will take 250 hunters but i dont think there over 150...

I find this incredible. This is a serious question and not trying to sound like I am putting the situation down, I am truly trying to comprehend and understand.

How does everyone get to a stand without stinking the place up, jumping spooking everything to the next county, and not interfering with each other's hunting?

I realize ( or at least I thinkI do) that 97 acres in your country hunts much bigger than 97 acres in our country, but I still can't even imagine.

I have 300 acres all to myself with the exception of an ocassional invited friend or family member, and my place is considered a small to medium place, in my part of the world.

I also have sole access to another farm of 640 acres, but it is mostly planted in wheat with little cover except on one end where there is a1 milelong shelter belt, and then a few other"good spots" on 2 of the other 3 sides, but it does not hunt as near as big as it sounds. That is, unless you want to gun hunt and shoot them off the field from 200-300 yards away.

I archery hunt public land for mule deer and elk each year in both New Mexico and Colorado, and while I may regularly see another hunter a mile or so away, I have encountered very few hunters face to face or even within a quarter of a mile over the years.

The ony exception would be hunting water holes in Southwestern New Mexico. You better get there early for the afternoon hunt if you want to claim the hole for that afternoon's hunt.

The deer know the sound of a car door shutting....when we goto breakfast..the bucks go to work on the ladies...

I hunt on 15 acres of private land, and I have sole permision to be out there. Durring bow season, there might be 1 0r 2 guys on the land next to me on any given day. But now when the guns come out, I am surrounded on all sides with an army of orange.

During bow season it's me,myself,and I. During gun season there is about 5 of us on 600 acres.

NONE... it's the land of poachers and outlaws.

Yes I have hunters, quad runners, snow mobilers, and yote huntes.
Wi has over500,000 to 600,000gun hunters per year.
Not sure on the Archery numbers but 4 of us hunt the 156 acres.

That's what it's like in our upper peninsula. They have to feed their families somehow I guess.